Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
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I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.
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I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.
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I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants...it's the gateway drug to no sex.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
